Reading With Pride - Adult, Rainbow Female Character

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This is a list of books that will help you complete the first section of the challenge - reading a book with a rainbow female character.

This is the Adult list.

Updated May 11, 2026
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A curse of crows
Dedroog, Lauren
Paper Book
Diana speaks. Gods answer. Aedlynn strikes. Enemies fall. In the realm where gods dance with mortals, Diana's prayers wield unimaginable power. But when a deadly sickness threatens to consume her, she strikes a desperate bargain with an unlikely ally, invoking a journey...
Learned by heart
Donoghue, Emma
Paper Book
Shortlisted for the Atwood Gibson Prize. The heartbreaking story of the love of two women - Anne Lister, the real-life inspiration behind Gentleman Jack, and her first love, Eliza Raine - from the bestselling author of Room and The Wonder. In 1805,...
The couple at no. 9
Douglas, Claire (Journalist)
Paper Book
An inherited cottage. A body buried in the garden. And a secret spanning three generations. When Saffy's beloved grandmother, Rose, goes into a care home, Saffy learns that she has inherited her Cotswolds cottage. But as work begins on much-needed renovations, the body of a young...
The wedding party
Kelly, Cathy
Paper Book
'Fizzing with fun, warmth, humour and wisdom, the perfect summer read!' VERONICA HENRY 'Compassionate and wise' ERICA JAMES 'Loved it. I couldn't put it down!' LUCY KENNEDY 'Wise and sparkling and a perfect summer read!' FAITH HOGAN<...
Devotion
Kent, Hannah
Paper Book
BOOKTOPIA'S FAVOURITE BOOK OF 2021 Prussia, 1836 Hanne Nussbaum is a child of nature - she would rather run wild in the forest than conform to the limitations of womanhood. In her village of Kay, Hanne is friendless and considered an oddity . . . until she meets Thea. Ocean, 1838 The Nussbaums are...
The underworld
Laguna, Sofie
Paper Book
'Just read it. Flippin' amazing.' TRENT DALTON Martha Mullins is a misfit. Her mother is glamorous, aloof and judgemental. Her father, mostly absent. Academic and shy, Martha finds herself fascinated by the underworld, a place she learns about in Roman mythology...
One last stop
McQuiston, Casey
Paper Book
*INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* *INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER* *INSTANT #1 INDIE BESTSELLER* From the New York Times bestselling author of Red, White & Royal Blue comes a new romantic comedy that will stop readers in their tracks... ...
Gideon the Ninth
Muir, Tamsyn
Paper Book
Gideon the Ninth is the first book in the New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Locked Tomb Series, and one of the Best Books of 2019 according to NPR, the New York Public Library, Amazon, BookPage, Shelf Awareness, BookRiot, and Bustle!...
Harrow the ninth
Muir, Tamsyn
Paper Book
Harrow the Ninth, an Amazon pick for Best SFF of 2020 and the New York Times and USA Today bestselling sequel to Gideon the Ninth, turns a galaxy inside out as one necromancer struggles to survive the wreckage of herself aboard the Emperor's haunted space station....
Nona the ninth
Muir, Tamsyn
Paper Book
Tamsyn Muir's New York Times and USA Today bestselling Locked Tomb Series continues with Nona ...the Ninth? Her city is under siege. The zombies are coming back. And all Nona wants is a birthday party. In many ways, Nona is like other people. She lives with her family, has a job at her local school,...
A Heart of Crimson Flames
Mulford, A. K.
Wolf pack politics, heart-pounding action, dark magic, newfound family dynamics, and shifter romance come to an explosive climax in the incredible conclusion of the Golden Court Trilogy by bestselling author A.K. Mulford. The only thing more challenging than taming a...
A river of golden bones
Mulford, A. K.
Paper Book
From bestselling author and TikTok sensation A.K. Mulford comes the first riveting, enchanting book in the all-new Golden Court trilogy. A young heir begins a journey of self-discovery, romance, and adventure as she comes out of hiding to save her sister from a malicious, powerful...
A sky of emerald stars
Mulford, A. K.
Audiobook
The second book in the all-new Golden Court romantasy trilogy. A secret song. A hidden fortress. A world on the brink of war. Royal guard Sadie Rauxtide has been grappling with how she'll fit into the Golden Court, after the long, tyrannical reign of the evil sorceress...
The Last Poem
Peppernell, Courtney
A moving and heart-rending debut about a grieving woman who moves to a charming small town and finds healing, friendship and love, from multi-million-copy bestselling Australian poet Courtney Peppernell. Wren Paisley is living her dream: she's a successful author and poet, she...
Detransition, baby
Peters, Torrey
Paper Book
A uniquely trans take on love, motherhood, and those exes who you just can't quit.
Stag dance
Peters, Torrey
Paper Book
Trans life past, present and future is explored in this kaleidoscopic follow-up to the Women's Prize-nominated Detransition, Baby
SIX WILD CROWNS
RACE, HOLLY.
Paper Book
Come and get it
Reid, Kiley
Paper Book
THE UNMISSABLE NEW NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF BESTSELLING PHENOMENON SUCH A FUN AGE *A 2024 Book of the Year for the Washington Post, New Yorker, Elle, Vulture and Harper's Bazaar* * THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES<...
Atmosphere
Reid, Taylor Jenkins
Paper Book
***THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER*** 'Tipped as the read of the summer' SUNDAY TIMES 'A richly drawn page-turner' OBSERVER 'Quite possibly our favourite TJR novel yet' COSMOPOLITAN 'I absolutely adored this' BRYONY GORDON...
The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo : a novel
Reid, Taylor Jenkins
Paper Book
The entrancing story of a reclusive Hollywood starlet as she reflects on her relentless rise to the top and the long-held secrets the public could never imagine - soon to be a major film on Netflix. Reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell...
Greta And Valdin
Reilly, Rebecca K.
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2024 THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Delightfully confident . . . a total pleasure' TIMES 'Warm, witty and utterly idiosyncratic' ALICE SLATER 'Hilarious, touching and hotly sublime'...
Ordinary love
Rutkoski, Marie
Bury our bones in the midnight soil
Schwab, Victoria
Paper Book
The Heart-Stopping International Sensation! Instant No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller No. 1 New York Times Bestseller The Radio 2 Book Club Pick From V. E. Schwab, a genre-defying, unforgettable novel to sink your teeth into . . .
Among the burning flowers
Shannon, Samantha
Paper Book
Marosa Vetalda is a prisoner in her own home, controlled by her cold father, King Sigoso. Over the mountains, her betrothed, Aubrecht Lievelyn, rules Mentendon in all but name. Together, they intend to usher in a better world. A better world seems impossibly distant to Estina Melaugo, who hunts the...
A day of fallen night
Shannon, Samantha
Paper Book
**THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER** 'A magnificent, sweeping epic' JENNIFER SAINT, Sunday Times-bestselling author of ARIADNE 'Shannon is simply a master of the genre' C. S. PACAT, New York Times-bestselling author of DARK RISE...
The priory of the orange tree
Shannon, Samantha
Paper Book
THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'The new Game of Thrones' Stylist'Puts Samantha Shannon in the same league as Robin Hobb and George R.R. Martin. Shannon is a master of dragons' Starburst'Epic fantasy with added dragons. A...
Briefly, a delicious life
Stevens, Nell
Paper Book
Briefly, A Delicious Life tells the story of Frédéric Chopin and George Sand's brief and mostly disastrous stay in an empty monastery in Valldemossa in Mallorca in 1838. The novel is narrated by Blanca, the ghost of a girl who has been at the monastery ever since her death over 300 years previously....
The safekeep : a novel
Wouden, Yael van der
Paper Book
It is fifteen years after the Second World War, and Isabel has built herself a solitary life of discipline and strict routine in her late mother's country home, with not a fork or a word out of place. But all is upended when her brother Louis delivers his graceless new girlfriend, Eva, at Isabel...

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